What Help Should We Provide to Students Learning to Program?
Insights from a recent Dagstuhl Seminar on "Notional Machines and Programming Language Semantics in Education."
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Leonardo da Vinci, who died 500 years ago, had already designed a self-driving car.
Bringing More Women, Immigrants, to Computer Science
Gloria Townsend on encouraging women to pursue CS, and Sheldon Waite on supporting immigrants to fill STEM jobs.
Hazardous Enthusiasm and How Eagerness Can Kill A Project
Many otherwise competent software developers and potential contributors end up being overwhelmed by "hazardous enthusiasm." They end up overwhelmed by their excitement and instead of implementing gradual change, they try to redo entire projects. Let's take a look at what I mean.
The Turing Lectures of 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureates Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun were highlights of the welcome session of ACM FCRC.
A Design Perspective on Computational Thinking
Maybe we can just design away the need to teach computational thinking
How Do You Calculate with the Sector?
The sector was developed in the second half of the 16th century, and was in widespread use until the end of the 19th century,
Is CS Really for All, and Defending Democracy in Cyberspace
Mark Guzdial mulls the difficulty of getting into a computer science class, while John Arquilla ponders political warfare in cyberspace.
How to Support Research in Computer Science via Russian Scientific Foundations
Russia is lagging behind the world average in fields including medicine, the agricultural sciences, biotechnology, pharmacology, the social sciences, and computer science.
Google Translate Does Not Understand the Content of the Texts
How well do translation programs translate?
Is the Trolley Problem Useful for Studying Autonomous Vehicles?
Does the trolley problem offer any useful insights for autonomous vehicles, in terms of design of or public policy around these systems? Here are several reasons why it is not useful, and what are some more useful values-based questions to ask.
How to Reduce Long Lines at CS Office Hours in Five Tweets
Evidence-based practices that will likely reduce the long lines at the CS professor's door.
Implementing Guidelines for Governance, Oversight of AI, and Automation
Governance and independent oversight on the design and implementation of all forms of artificial intelligence and automation is a cresting wave about to break comprehensively on the field of IT and computing.
Breaking the Chains of Freelance Slavery
The idea of working from home is no longer novel, and there are a number of drawbacks to consider.
Women Now Outnumber Men in Medical Schools. Computer Science Should Be Next.
This story about encouragement tells us how we can change girls' and women's lives.
Soundness and Completeness: Defined With Precision
The two key properties of program analysis are dual of each other.
Blockchain Was the First, but Will Not Be the Last
What is the outlook for Zero-Trust Decentralization, and should we expect other products aside from Blockchain?
In Search of A Rare Roman Pocket Calculator
As far as we know, three original copies of the Roman hand abacus have survived. There is a fourth device, but nobody knows where it is.
Will We All Be Wearing Wearables?
If wearable computing products are really needed, what are the biggest practical and research challenges to mainstream adoption?
Five Research Questions Raised by a Pre-Mortem on the 60 Minutes Segment on Code.org
If undergraduate CS research doesn't become gender-balanced in 10 years, why didn't it?
Pondering Variables and Direct Instruction
Robin K. Hill considers the nature of variables, while Mark Guzdial reflects on renewed interest in the "direct instruction model."
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